Reviews

“[...] you're going to have a pretty good time in this crude, primitively rendered 8-bit paradise.”
7/10 – Eurogamer

Steam Greenlight

About This Game

McPixel is a save-the-day guy that you guide through 100 short challenges in an old-school point'n'click fashion. The goal in each challenge is to prevent stuff from blowing up using available tools! You have only 20 seconds to save the day! Think quick!

I have the faintest of suspicions that I may be "getting old". The fact that this game is frankly too silly for even the immature likes of me seems to bear this out. That, and the fact that while I was fine with all the post, and indeed post-post, and probably even post-post-post, and maybe, just maybe, even all the post-post-post-post-modernist humour that has emerged during my lifetime, all this post-post-post-post-post-modernist humour that seems all the rage these days is just a bit beyond me, I'm afraid. Half the time, not only did I not find the "gags" of this game all that funny, but at least another quarter of the time I didn't even understand what had just transpired (though the insanely, even downright PERVERSELY pixelated nature of events may not have helped in these instances). The other quarter of the time, okay, I got myself a cheap chuckle - my personal favourite was trying to work out who the virgin was to throw in the volcano, and ultimately (and successfully) deciding on MYSELF - but the laughs really are too few and far between to put up with the eye-bleedingly awful graphics and incredibly limited gameplay. (Groovy music, though.)

Look, I will recommend it, but only just, and only to those who need a brief break from watching allegedly "funny ♥♥♥♥" all day, every day on ♥♥♥♥ing YOUTUBE. Yes, it's at roughly THAT level, I'm afraid. Enjoy your LOLs, kiddies...

To understand this game, you need a decent sense of humor, because it is so random and so "WTFy" that it actually makes you laugh. Also, logic don't apply here, so it's just pure fun without unnecessary frustration - once you get to the (least logical and most unexpected) solution, most of the time you'll laugh because of how hilarious it was.

A surreel excercise in pixel hunting. The game is simple, plays quickly, with a lot of great movie, video-game, and pop-culture references.

It's just... weird. A full 100% playthough will only take a few hours, although like the disclaimer says, it's definitely better when taken in small chunks. Otherwise things start getting pretty repetitive.

Short, trial and error, point and click puzzles in an old-school pixelated style. Reminds me of Wario Ware type games (although plays a bit different but same 20 second time frames). Works well if you understand it seems made for some chuckles. You will fail time and again (you actually have to fail to see all the possible results to open some bonus rounds) but not particularly frustrating as it is very quick paced but casual. A game that I recommend for short intervals. Lots of content expanded by user content as well. I haven't finished the game, but overall I feel good recommending it.

At first I found McPixel to be fairly amusing but soon enough the notion of randomly clicking on an object and observing the outcome became extremely repetitive. The order in which you have to perform each action is not always logical and is often a guessing game. I did enjoy some of the references that are made throughout the levels and I do admire the sheer amount of content that is available. There is no doubt that this game is good value for money but I felt that the gameplay is lacking.

''Your choice, your opinion, your say. You have 30 seconds to stop the bomb the McPixel way.'' My quote was actually quite nice to think of it. Also, it is recommended for people who loves puzzles and to solve mouse-clicking games. There are DLCs that are free and that is a good present. You get the story with 4 chapters and in each chapter, there is 3 levels to complete and also a hidden level. I hope this helps your advantage of getting this game, it's great. (By the way, my quote just rhymed, I was saving this note for last).

Spoof 8 bit version of the 80's TV show "McGuyver" where you must stop a bomb exploding withing 20 seconds.

It's fun in short bursts (the way it is meant to be played - it even says so on the loading screen) and it is incredible random. One screen clicking on a man might make him open his mouth, the next it might make him fall off a building, you never know, so it's basically trial and error to hit on the correct solution. However, if you get it wrong, you usually get a quick laugh along with the chance to replay the level again. Plus it comes with tons of bonus free DLC, so if you are looking for a quick palette cleanser to play between games, McPixel might do the trick.

This game has it all. Pixels, explosions, stopping explosions, and urinating in a space ship's engine. In this point and click game, you choose very basic commands and McPixel does them by clicking an object, or clicking one object, then clicking another. You can never really know what he is going to do or if it will solve the level, but that's not the point. The point is that you get to see him stick an electric razor up his ♥♥♥ and rub it on Batman's face.